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"It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid" - "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it"
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Origins of Covid-19 on 10:48 - Jun 1 with 1260 views
Wonder if China will now get the blame for killing 3,000,000 World wide?
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Can't believe I heard this on Radio 4 this afternoon:
President Xi Jinping has forged a bristling new superpower - His speech today aired to a global audience:
"The Chinese nation has a strong sense of national pride and self-confidence..... and we will never allow any Foreign forces to challenge us. Anyone who dares to try will have their HEADS BASHED AND BLOODIED against the great wall of steel forged by over of 1.4Bn Chinese people".
WTF.
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Pro free speech and alternative opinions -
Anti gang-bullying and poor modding thereof -
Will always make a stand against those who consistently choose to turn a blind eye
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Origins of Covid-19 on 17:45 - Jul 5 with 1073 views
Can't believe I heard this on Radio 4 this afternoon:
President Xi Jinping has forged a bristling new superpower - His speech today aired to a global audience:
"The Chinese nation has a strong sense of national pride and self-confidence..... and we will never allow any Foreign forces to challenge us. Anyone who dares to try will have their HEADS BASHED AND BLOODIED against the great wall of steel forged by over of 1.4Bn Chinese people".
WTF.
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Didn't Trump and Bush come up with similar threats?
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Origins of Covid-19 on 18:01 - Jul 5 with 1069 views
Fauci is now demanding that 3yr olds wear face masks..
"It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid" - "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it"
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Origins of Covid-19 on 23:23 - Jul 14 with 981 views
Origins of Covid-19 on 11:27 - Apr 26 by Professor
Yes- so did I. But more likely flu, a severe cold or even respiratory mycoplasma infection which was at an unusually high prevalence.
The PCR testing of wastewater showing early positives is pretty dubious. Those who also decry false positives in PCR testing should like the fact the signals are so weak there is a significant chance they are false positives as they are at Ct39. The also use a different gene that diagnostic testing which is less specific. The other paper using serology is almost certainly a cross-reaction and being investigated for scientific malpractice.
The current consensus is emergence in Wuhan in mid November, with some likely cases in Europe by December which went undiagnosed. The promed alert of unusually pneumonia in Wuhan was 31/12/19.
As for source-almost certainly an animal-to-human jump whether through perturbance of a habitat for bats or directly or through an intermediate host at the wet market (Wuhan Seafood Market). Changes in human:animal contact have driven most emerging viruses in the last 60 years-Ebola and HIV are either habitat incursion or bushmeat, Hendra and Nippah -from bats into horses in Australia and onto humans for Hendra and bats via pigs into humans in Indonesia for Nippah. Incursions onto bat territory in both cases.
Wet markets have also been a risk-especially of reassortment of influenza and likely the source of H1N1 avian influenza.
Accidental release of a modified virus is possible-accidents happen (FMD from Pirbright being a prime example), but as for the research being sinister or a plot-you would not be picking a coronavirus as a candidate for a bioweapon. The Mail article is hilarious-Chinese Government backing virus research. Christ, they will loose their s**t when they find out where viral research is funded from in the UK, and even more so when they, find out about the many joint UK:China programmes. Pathogen 'hunting' -discovery of new viruses (and indeed bacteria) is pretty commonplace and quite trendy. Made easy by portable, low cost genome sequencing. What is even funnier is the Mail also posted an article on how an undergraduate student at UEA in Norwich had found a novel bat coronavirus in the UK. UEA must be a danger for society and a hotbed of communism (as well as Malcolm Bradbury's creative writing course).
It's laughable that people claim not follow conspiracy theories, yet are happy to share the most ridiculous tin foil hattery once again. The only element of indisputable truth is that Chinese authorities delayed informing WHO and underplayed the severity and extent of disease.
Zoonotic infections have and will remain a big threat. How we manage animals and disrupt their habitat ensures this. The next threat could equally come from the West as from China or elsewhere in Asia.
Could go on, but my day off and going to enjoy a walk in the sun.
I have a friend who works in Cardiff University. He told me that some of his Wuhan students were telling him there was a nasty illness back home as early as September/October 2019 which they “weren’t allowed to talk about”.
Each time I go to Bedd - au........................
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Origins of Covid-19 on 10:03 - Jul 17 with 821 views
So you think it was here in September but we didn't see a peak until the end of March despite there being no social restrictions? That's seven months.
But from a low point in infections in August we saw a massive rise in infections, hospitalisation and deaths within two months, despite social restrictions?
It sounds like a different virus was around in Autumn 2019 to me.
Or was it mutating even back then?
Each time I go to Bedd - au........................
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Origins of Covid-19 on 15:17 - Jul 17 with 797 views
"It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid" - "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it"
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Origins of Covid-19 on 00:04 - Jul 24 with 682 views
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